Kansas governor vetoes most bills in 17 years as Republicans push aggressive agenda Katie Bernard and Jonathan Shorman, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 26 TOPEKA Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly s veto pen moved swiftly last week.
Transgender athlete ban? Civics and financial literacy requirements for high schoolers? Gun safety education for students using NRA materials? All vetoed. Kelly has rejected eight non-budget bills this year, more than any Kansas governor in the past 17 years.
On Monday, she added to her streak, vetoing 18 provisions in the proposed budget. They include items that would give legislative committees more power over allocation of federal relief funds and ban use of state dollars to enforce mask mandates.
In the year since George Floyd s death, Kansas takes little action on police reform Katie Bernard, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 21 TOPEKA In June 2020, a month after George Floyd died, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly created a Commission on Racial Equity and Justice. It s first task: to study law enforcement-community relations and make recommendations to improve them. As Governor, I am committed to ensuring this latest tragedy does not fade into the next news cycle, Kelly said. Communities of color do not have the luxury of time for leaders to address these issues.
In December, the commission produced a 91-page report with 60 recommendations. It supported more investigative muscle for the state s law enforcement licensing agency, required more implicit bias training and a review of the process used for assessing complaints of biased policing.
Kansas bill regulating jailhouse witness testimony unlikely to become law this year
Bill regulating jailhouse witnesses in KS unlikely to pass
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â When Olin âPeteâ Coones went to prison for a murder he did not commit in Kansas City, Kansas, a jailhouse informant was the damning witness.
No physical evidence tied Coones, whose story was featured Friday on
Dateline, to the crime.
The father of five even had an alibi, but Wyandotte County prosecutors relied on a jailhouse witness, who had been convicted of âcrimes of dishonesty and who was later determined to be âunreliable.â
Kansas Senate Republicans oust leader from post amid wrong-way drunk driving charges Jonathan Shorman and Katie Bernard, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 10 TOPEKA Kansas Senate Republicans ousted Sen. Gene Suellentrop as majority leader Friday the first major political penalty paid by the Wichita Republican after he was charged with leading police on a drunken wrong-way chase down Interstate 70.
The extraordinary vote by the GOP caucus marked an all-out attempt by senators to separate themselves from Suellentrop, who has become politically toxic amid revelations he allegedly taunted a police officer after his arrest and had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit.
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